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cabinpres_fic) wrote2012-04-03 07:26 am
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PROMPT POST PART IV
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(updated 6 June)
Welcome everybody. How you got here I have no idea but thank you for coming and welcome again, nonetheless . As you may have gathered this is a Fic Prompting Meme dedicated solely to the hilarious and oh-so-addictive BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Cabin Pressure. I'm aiming for this to be pretty anything goes - but in order for everything to run smoothly, there are a few guidelines. Don't worry - they're not too restrictive.
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FILL: Mister May - 3/?
(Anonymous) 2012-05-10 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)‘Why on Earth did you feel the need to enter him into a trumped-up Beauty Pageant in the first place?’ Carolyn didn’t so much as let Douglas draw breath to reply. ‘You had a bet on with somebody. Didn’t you?’
‘Sort-of.’
‘Ha!’
‘But I was just interested to see how far he’d get, really.’
‘Without him knowing about it whatsoever, you mean.’
‘Quite.’ Douglas paused. ‘You haven’t told him, have you?’
‘That he’s just been in a very public Meat Market without his consent and is now being harassed on his work phone number to strip for the cameras? No, Douglas, I haven’t. I’m not that keen on giving 50% of my staff a complete nervous breakdown in my office – at least not when they still have paperwork to complete.’
‘Fine. The calendar is a step too far. I’ll phone the paper and tell them he can’t do it.’
‘He’ll still find out about the contest, you know.’
‘Not necessarily…’
‘I saw a thumbnail of his photograph on the front page of Carl’s newspaper! I am well aware that you’re capable of many things, Douglas, but pulling the wool over Martin’s eyes over this indefinitely simply can’t be done.’
Douglas stopped at the Portacabin door. ‘Oh, can’t it?’
‘No, it can’t.’
‘I bet you it can. I bet you five hundred pounds that it can.’
‘Fine. You’ll get your £500 the day Martin dies, blissfully unaware that he was ever deemed, in what I can only imagine was due to a rather dry year for those attracted to the hairier sex, Fitton’s Sexiest Man.’
‘All right – not that, then.’ Douglas had a new idea. ‘The calendar. I bet I can get him to do the calendar.’
‘Douglas, have you gone completely mad?’
‘And I’ll get him to do it willingly,’ added Douglas. ‘And, all without him finding out about the contest. At least, until it goes on sale.’
‘Ah. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Yes – definitely completely off your rocker. You’ll never manage that.’
‘Oh, won’t I?’
‘Added to the fact that it’s a monstrously manipulative, degrading thing to even suggest doing to poor Martin.’
‘He will be happy about it, and relaxed, and dare I say it, perhaps rather more self-confident as a result.’
‘Happy. Relaxed. Self-confident about his naked portrait being bandied about,’ Carolyn reiterated, incredulously. ‘Martin.’
‘Do we have a deal?’
‘I don’t know who I feel sorrier for,’ replied Carolyn. ‘Martin, or you for becoming so delusional you think that this has the slightest chance of working. You’re on.’
Right. So now he not only had to keep Martin from finding out his own home town had overwhelmingly decreed him to be infinitely more attractive than he ever believed himself to be, he also had to get Martin to be happy and willing to pose for a photoshoot. Naked. Hmm. Well, it was certainly a challenge worthy of an absolute master of misdirection, subterfuge and manipulation. Luckily for him, he was Douglas Richardson.
He followed Carolyn into the Portacabin, where Arthur was chattering merrily to anyone who’d listen and Martin was busy with Douglas’ paperwork.
‘You know,’ said Douglas, as conversationally as he could, ‘we could probably do with getting some different films in. I’m getting rather tired of hearing The King’s Speech over and over again.’
‘Okie Doke,’ Arthur chirped, ‘I’ll go through our DVD shelves at home again. Any requests?’
Douglas shrugged. ‘Oh, something light and chirpy – family friendly for the plane, of course, and I do like a good British cast, don’t you? Oh – tell you what’s rather nicely uplifting – Calendar Girls.’
‘The one where Victoria Wood’s friends get out their Jumblies?’ asked Arthur.
‘Are you sure that’ll be appropriate, Douglas?’ Carolyn asked. ‘A lot of rather wobbly flesh being foisted on people whether they like it or not?’
‘Oh, Mum, it’s all very tastefully done,’ said Arthur. ‘It’s not like they’re naked in a dirty way. It’s just… well, it’s nice. They raise all this money for charity and they’re happy with their bodies and stuff.’
‘What about you, Martin?’ Douglas asked. ‘What do you think?’
‘A change of film sounds good,’ Martin muttered.
‘About Calendar Girls, I mean.’
‘I haven’t seen it.’
‘Yes, but you must know the premise. It’s a true story. All about people… people who wouldn’t usually pose naked…’
‘Old ladies, mostly,’ Arthur added. ‘One of them was Mrs Meldrew!’
‘…choosing,’ continued Douglas, ‘to do a nude calendar for charity. And it’s all terribly inspiring because they’re not the usual airbrushed model types that would pose for that sort of thing, you see…’
‘I wonder what Victor Meldrew would say if he found out about that!’ piped Arthur.
‘And the calendar did really well, and it raised oodles of money…’
‘Oh, I know! I bet he’d say “I don’t believe it” – that’s what he’d say. Still. Dead, now.’
‘And all in all,’ Douglas concluded, ‘everybody in the calendar feels very liberated by the experience.’
‘Yes, all right, Douglas,’ said Martin, ‘you’ve sold it to me.’ He looked up from the paperwork. ‘It sounds like a nice film – let’s have that.’
‘You don’t think it’s at all salacious?’ Carolyn asked, ‘conforming to our sex-mad society where everyone’s expected to get their bits out in the wink of an eye? Where everybody has to strip off to feel “empowered”?’
‘Well, it’s up to them what they want to do with their bodies, Carolyn,’ said Martin. ‘I don’t think there’s any problem with anybody doing that sort of thing, if that’s what they want.’
Douglas met Carolyn’s gaze as Martin returned to the paperwork, and allowed himself a faint smirk.
Round one to Richardson. Now, the job was to make that sort of thing something that Martin very much wanted. Which may well take a while.
Re: FILL: Mister May - 3/?
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Re: FILL: Mister May - 3/?
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